Vintage trading cards are big business. We got a reminder of that Thursday night when a Wayne Gretzky rookie card from 1979 sold for a record $465,000 at auction. The card was produced by Canadian company O-Pee-Chee, and showed Gretzky in his original Edmonton Oilers uniform.
This Wayne Gretzky rookie card just sold for $465,000, a record for any hockey card ever sold pic.twitter.com/voRY7HGUYm
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 5, 2016
The grading company PSA said this Gretzky specimen was a Gem Mint 10, the highest grade for cards.